Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Primordial Platypus @perfectclarity.bsky.social · 10hLook weddings are expensive you're going to try and cut costs somewhere and sometimes that means cheaper catering. 21073
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 3hBC: "Stanford went on to note that Shell and other oil and gas companies paid the province $672 million in royalties in the 2024-25 fiscal year. Fifteen years ago, those same companies paid nearly twice as much in royalties while producing half as much gas.”" thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...thetyee.caBC’s Big, and Now Secret, Natural Gas Giveaway | The TyeeTax credits let companies pay little for resources. What do the parties say? 188
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1hPer Politico citing 6 diplomats familiar with the matter, Trump admin is excluding the UK, France and Baltic countries from a NATO meeting on alliance’s future next month in Poland — after threatening to deploy a “naughty and nice list” against governments that have run afoul of Trump’s priorities. 4414876
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 22hThe National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o... 24320136
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 5h“The short answer is that none of this is coincidental and we must become enlivened to the stark reality that a treasonous movement has come to hijack the national agenda at a moment of great consequence when our attention should be elsewhere and our unity unshakable.” #CoordinatedAttack #AbPoli 093
Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.social · 5hThe USA continues its breathtaking downward spiral. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comTrump administration withdraws US from Greco anti-corruption monitoring body‘The era of writing blank checks to international bureaucracies is over,’ state department spokesperson says 000
Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.social · 7hThe "separatist movement is a guerrilla faction of the far right which is attacking open societies around the world." www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...theglobeandmail.comOpinion: We must call Alberta separation what it isIt is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work 042
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026FT has independently corroborated Kimberly Guilfoyle’s statement that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government of PM Bolojan over its refusal to buy US gas at above market prices: "We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here too." www.ft.com/content/7af7...ft.comDonald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in RomaniaKimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall 29224153
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Whitney Gegg-Harrison (she/they) @writerethink.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I’m also a college professor: a cognitive scientist who teaches writing. So you’ll say I only think this because I have a vested interest, but writing actually IS important, and this piece offers such a shallow and limited perspective on its value to us as thinkers. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to. 1112
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/09/2026automakers are some of the worst on privacy and security of any industry in America, which makes their push to ban Chinese EVs "for privacy and security" extra fucking annoyingtheverge.comYour car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think“There’s a lot to be worried about,” the project lead said. 524769
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Political pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/poli...albertapolitics.caPolitical pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says - Alberta PoliticsOne of the most disgraceful episodes of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta took place on April 18, 2020, when Devin Dreeshen, Jason Copping and Deena Hinshaw assured employees of Cargill Inc.’s meat pac... 44921
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The fact that there’s no more room to store #TarSands tailings needs to be part of the convo. Carney is avoiding it. Fracking & interbasin water transfers for drilling is dangerous. Next are data centre gas plants. By the # of applications AB will be a sacrifice zone #NoTreat&Release #NoGasForAIedmontonjournal.comFirst Nations Chief threatens legal action against province if tailings water is releasedThe Chief said that the community is already suffering several cancer cases and the last thing they want is contaminated water supply. 185
Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026JFC. So, one of the Canadian suppliers (Draganfly) to build drones for domestic and Ukrainian defense got a large investment from scum bag Donald Trump's Unusual Machines company. This is f'd up. The Canadian govt should cancel the contract with Draganfly immediately. draganfly.com/press-releas...draganfly.comDraganfly Announces Strategic Investment from Unusual Machines and a Leading U.S. Investment Fund - DraganflyDraganfly 4118
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a... 12587245
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend. 20643201106
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Free Agent Fly On The Wall @flyonsomewall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The UCP will hire foreign temporary workers, make them work, get sick and die in a COVID infested workplace, and then ask the people of Alberta to decide in a referendum whether they should be eligible for health care or not. What a shit hole province. What an absolute disgrace to Canada. 0155
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Political pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/poli...albertapolitics.caPolitical pressure, negligence, incompetence all contributed to pandemic tragedy at High River plant, new report says - Alberta PoliticsOne of the most disgraceful episodes of the COVID-19 pandemic in Alberta took place on April 18, 2020, when Devin Dreeshen, Jason Copping and Deena Hinshaw assured employees of Cargill Inc.’s meat pac... 66750
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I was interviewed by Sam Woodson for @theguardian.com. Excellent piece on how testosterone is being used by the U.S. government as regressive propaganda. Vaccines are liberal and TRT is MAGA. The needle is apolitical but.... Cc @caulfieldtim.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... 22111
Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Speed is not everything. youtu.be/svl_1upFpQo?...youtu.beThe paradox at the heart of AI and science | Terence TaoYouTube video by Big Think Clips 010
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Nunsense & Shenunigans @annaleehq.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Their election year reappearance is more reliable than cicadas 2131
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Absolutely extraordinary strategic and military concessions offered by Trump to Xi. Trump offered to sell weapons to China. That was revealed in an interview by David Perdue, the US ambassador. Trump is withholding a $14bn arms package to Taiwan already approved by Congress. All of thisnytimes.comTrump Offered to Sell Arms to China, U.S. Ambassador SaysPresident Trump made the offer to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, said David Perdue, the ambassador to China. The White House later said the U.S. had no plans for such a sale. 24323188
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Remind me? Did the UCP mention this in its election platform? 108935
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Amb Kimberly Guilfoyle working hard to advance the interests of... the Kremlin. 514885
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Cool Xenu 8647 @coolxenu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Filthy cowards infest #Kamloops, BC. #cdnpoli www.castanet.net/news/Kamloop...castanet.netMasked group prompts Tk'emlups security review, Kamloops RCMP involvement 011
Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Alberta sovereignty referendum discussion on Bluesky. atlas.jazco.dev?sel=topic-10...atlas.jazco.devAtlasA living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours. 011
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Why are Calgary voters growing disaffected with the UCP? Is it Danielle Smith, or just her referendum? albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/why-...albertapolitics.caWhy are Calgary voters growing disaffected with the UCP? Is it Danielle Smith, or just her referendum? - Alberta PoliticsThe $64,000 Question, as they used to say, is whether urban voters in Alberta are growing disaffected with Alberta’s United Conservative Party Government because of Danielle Smith’s divisive separatio... 63014
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Nigel Swedenborg 🍁🌻 @nigelswedenborg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It's not a day that ends in "y" if the CBC isn't posting another "both sides" article about the Alberta separation campaign.🙄 #ableg #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 3218
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The time change option chosen unilaterally by Danielle Smith, in the face of overwhelming evidence supporting Standard Time, will cause health harms for those in northern AB, specifically. Imagine being a parent in Peace River with a sunrise closer to 10am. Mental/physical health harms, etc. 57829
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026This is another great, approachable explainer on “the rationalist wackos who have managed to take over much of the AI industry, and who now have tons of money and political power.” www.iankduncan.com/personal/202...iankduncan.comSex, AI, and the Apocalypse - Ian DuncanHow a community devoted to thinking clearly incubated salvation stories, abusive experiments, race science, and an affection for autocracy, and why that history matters now that its alumni are asking ... 561898459
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Guilfoyle's prime qualification for being ambassador was being Trump Jr's last concubine. But she does perfectly sum up the diplomacy of the Trump dynasty. 28342
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Sad news for the #yeg market garden scene. Sundog Organics went out of business... due to our record-breaking cold and soggy summer. Too many of their crops died. A big gap in the Old Strathcona Farmers Market. Expect more of this as family farms struggle with climate change. 3194
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026keeper71: #Alberta #DanielleSith #Seppies In her own words... 44629
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Jason @jlopez10111.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thucydides trap where the ascendant power has to keep the declining empire from destroying the world 0362
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026“But effective altruism, so far at least, has been a conservative movement, calling us back to where we already are: the world as it is, our institutions as they are.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...lrb.co.ukAmia Srinivasan · Stop the Robot Apocalypse: The New UtilitariansPhilosophers may talk about justice or rights, but they don’t often try to reshape the world according to their ideals... 4467
Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026If you don't think some major f#ckery originating in the US and aided and abetted by the Alberta separatist movement is not occurring in Alberta as well, you are not paying attention. ca.news.yahoo.com/quebec-party...ca.news.yahoo.comCSIS contacted as U.S. interference claims swirl in Quebec electionMONTRÉAL — Allegations of political interference from the United States dominated the 30th day of Quebec's election campaign on Friday as Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette expressed c... 031
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Sean M. @baddaywithacamera.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Living in this province (#Alberta, Canada) grinds on me more every day. Never thought I would see the amount of open #racism I do now. Trying to figure out how to move to Manitoba. 011
Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Too many people who had the luck to be born to the right parents or had luck in other ways do this. "[JD Vance] mocked poor people for being poor and said it was a lack of masculinity and a lack of thrift. I would never blame poor people for their poverty.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘I’m not JD Vance’: the Appalachia memoir author running for CongressBeth Macy, author of Dopesick, is drawing on her reporting experience to win Virginia voters in a longtime Republican district 131
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026American conservatism may not be the absolute worst strain of conservatism in history, but it has to be the most intellectually bankrupt. “We ripped up all the established norms and now the new world is scary and different!” Wow, if only there was an ideology dedicated to conserving the old ways. 12940143
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ok so anyone who is treating Yudkowsky as an expert should be forced to explain Roko’s Basilisk and why he took it seriously 2047684
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Guest post by former Alberta chief electoral officer Lorne Gibson: The voters list, scrutineers and the question of trust. albertapolitics.ca/2026/09/gues...albertapolitics.caGuest post by Lorne Gibson: The voters list, scrutineers and the question of trust - Alberta PoliticsLorne Gibson has served both as Alberta’s chief electoral officer and its election commissioner. The latter position was created by the NDP Government of premier Rachel Notley in the spring of 2018 to... 04425
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026Tbh it doesn’t exactly require a rocket surgeon to figure out why Americans don’t trust big tech companies very much. 925944
Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Ah, yes. A tried and true strategy to get rid of a popular program that many rely on. Starve it, enshittify it, and then claim it's unsustainable. 000
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 25/09/2026That's two different news stories just today about the US trying to undermine Canadian sovereignty by targeting Quebec www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/09/25/w... www.journaldemontreal.com/2026/09/25/i...journaldemontreal.comIngérence étrangère: Ottawa a averti Québec d’une possible tentative américaine d’influencer le voteLa Coalition Avenir Québec a été rencontré par les services secrets canadiens 2187
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026US once again trying to fuck with usjournaldemontreal.comIngérence étrangère: Ottawa a averti Québec d’une possible tentative américaine d’influencer le voteLa Coalition Avenir Québec a été rencontré par les services secrets canadiens 618245
Martin Grasdal 🍁 @mgrasdal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The US government up to its usual dirty tricks and meddling in the affairs of other countries. You can bet they are playing a huge role in the craziness that is occurring in oil-rich Alberta right now. No wonder the anti US sentiment is so strong here in the great white north. 030
Reposted by Martin Grasdal 🍁Matthew Black @matthewblack.ca · 25/09/2026From court yesterday: A judge has largely sided with the govt/AHS in ordering former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos to surrender dozens of documents she had planned to rely on in her wrongful dismissal lawsuit, ruling them to be either legally privileged or confidential #ableg #abpoliedmontonjournal.comJudge orders former AHS CEO to return dozens of documentsAthana Mentzelopoulos is suing the government for wrongful dismissal, while the province says she was fired from AHS for incompetence 043